Snapshots

I've gotten into a little bit of a habit lately on Facebook. I look through all of someone's profile pictures- friends or not. Its like people watching in snap-shots. You see the images of their past couple years that they have chosen to display to the world. You see them in high school all dressed up for dances, then a few pictures in college- always surrounded by friends, then comes the relationship pictures- them with the same guy for a while, then their engagement, followed by wedding pictures, and those go for a while- and then the baby pictures. This is usually preceded by belly pictures-month by month. Then the newborn pictures (these are some of my favorites.. :) ) and then for some it continues with that baby getting older and older. Then you reach the end and if you hit the "next" button again- you're back to high school. And here is my favorite part- to then go backwards and have them jump from high school to baby and just look at how their life has changed in the 3-5 years. 

Then I always think about mine.

What will my life look like in 5 years? 

  Will I be surrounded by friends be happily single?

    Will I be in a foreign place doing volunteer nursing?

      Will I have pictures of me and my husband traveling?

        Will I have the sweet little baby pictures up?

I honestly have no clue. I can't even tell you exactly where I want it to be. There's been times where I would have definitely told you I'd be married and probably having my first kid by then. And with more and more friends getting married and engaged- I'm feeling pretty left behind. I'll be graduated, and be an RN (if all goes according to plan for the next 3 months..) And I'm getting more and more interested in Nursing abroad (especially with Doctors Without Borders- but they're pretty intense..) So we'll see I guess. In 5 years from now I'll go through my Facebook profile and see where I've been and what I'm doing- It would just be nice to get that little snapshot. 

Cheeeeeese!

So I found this recipe on Pinterest on how to make mozzerella cheese, and it looked delicious! And then my mom has been reading this book where this lady uses the same recipe to make mozzerella cheese. So we decided to make it. After spending all day getting all the ingredients and proper utensils, we finally started. And were following our directions pretty much perfectly. And guess what! We got a teaspoon of cheese! Wooo! Out of a gallon of milk. Yup. A whole measly teaspoon. Why? We're thinking our milk was too processed and wouldn't separate into whey and curds. So we're now hunting for raw milk. Anyone have a cow they want to share?!??!! I'll give you cookies! 


4/30 Update-- We made it and it worked! Wahoo!! We used Raw Milk- and had to sign a waiver and informed consent to get it. But it worked! And the cheese was super yummy. Mmmm. But we did have to edit the recipe a bit to get it to work for us. But it made a good size amount of cheese :)